Dust Bowl HES

In what part of the country did the Dust Bowl take place?

• Georgia

• Oklahoma and the Great Plains

• East Coast

• Southeast

When did the Dust Bowl occur?

• 1890s

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1950s

What happened in 1930 that was one of the causes of the Dust Bowl?

• A drought began

• The Mississippi River flooded

• There was a very bad blizzard

• Grasshoppers ate all the grass

What occurred in the dust bowl?

• Houses were buried in dust

• It was difficult to breathe

• Livestock choked to death

• Crops could not grow

• All of the above

What was taking place at the same time as the Dust Bowl?

• Civil War

• Cold War

• Great Depression

• Harlem Renaissance

What did many farmers do when they left their land?

• Became migrant workers and picked crops

• Moved to the cities

• Became steel workers

• Moved to Texas and became cowboys

What was one of the things that President Franklin Roosevelt and the government did to try to help protect the soil?

• Nothing

• Created new energy sources

• Made dust storms illegal

• Planted trees

What is one of the things the government does today to prevent the Dust Bowl from happening again?

• They give the famers tractors and other machinery

• They help farmers to organize into cooperatives

• They pay farmers to not plant certain fields

• They give protective clothing to farmers

True or false: Irrigation is when you dig ditches so that the water drains away from land that is too wet.

• True

• False

What caused the dust bowl?

• Farmers let their animals eat too much grass and it killed the grass.

• There was a ten year drought.

• Farmers plowed too deeply and too much land.

• All of the above